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New lawsuit claims Dixmoor allegedly inflated water bills by millions for Solvay plant
Solvay lawsuit seeks injunction to block a stop work order issued by Dixmoor amid a dispute over the company's allegedly unpaid excess water bills -
Lawyers ask judge to OK $68M fees for work landing $181M chicken price class action settlement
It remains unclear how much consumers might get as a share of $111 million remaining in the settlement funds after lawyers and settlement administrators are paid. -
Appeals panel says no legal fees for firm that challenged Pritzker's attempt to rewrite workers' comp COVID rules
The Illinois Workers' Compensation Commission pulled back the governor's requested COVID rules before a judge could invalidate them, the Fourth District Appellate Court ruled. -
IL high court says zoning law dispute doesn't stop Dept of Ag from deciding how close marijuana growers can be to neighborhoods
The Illinois Supreme Court has ruled the Illinois Department of Agriculture was within its rights to determine marijuana cultivation centers may be sited within 2,500 feet of residential areas, unless the areas are zoned "exclusively" residential, which could allow other state agencies to interpret state laws as they see fit. -
Did IL agency violate law when it permitted Aurora cannabis growing site? IL Supreme Court to decide
The Illinois Supreme Court heard arguments March 10 to decide the fate of the suburbs' designated medical cannabis cultivation license. -
IL high court to decide if state regulators broke law in awarding marijuana growers' license
A Lake County company has asked the Illinois Supreme Court to declare a state agency wrongly rewrote a state law in deciding to award a license for a cannabis cultivation facility to a competitor looking to operate a site in Aurora. -
Antitrust suit vs big turkey farms over alleged turkey price fixing remains uncaged
Chicago judge allows bulk of class action to survive motion to dismiss -
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Federal appeals court slams USDA in decades-old farm wetlands case
A Hancock County, Ind., woman, whose farm family sued after the U.S. Department of Agriculture denied them benefits over removal of nine trees from their property decades ago, scored a victory in the long-running wetlands case with a federal appeals court's recent scathing ruling. -
HEPLERBROOM: Former Iepa Director Joins Heplerbroom’s Government Affairs & Environmental Law Practices
HeplerBroom is pleased to announce that Alec Messina, immediate past Director of the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency, has joined the firm as a partner in its Springfield office. -
Grecian Delight says insurer refuses to pay more than $12M in claims from Elk Grove plant explosion
Elk Grove-based Greek food maker Grecian Delight has filed suit against its insurance company, claiming an insurer is crippling the company by refusing to pay out millions in claims after an explosion crippled the company’s food processing facility. -
Illinois legislative analyst offers employers tips on handling employee medical marijuana use
Some employers in Illinois are still coming to grips with legalized medical marijuana use. But in some ways, legalized medical marijuana has resulted in little change in employer and employee policies, said Chris Lindsey, Marijuana Policy Project's legislative analyst for Illinois. -
Where's the pork? Woman slaps Walmart with class action, claims store brand pork and beans contains no actual pork
Just as actress Clara Peller famously asked “Where’s the beef?” in a series of memorable 1980s television commercials for fast food chain Wendy's, now a Schaumburg woman is demanding in a federal class action lawsuit to know where the pork is in Walmart’s store brand product labeled “Pork and Beans.” -
Judge refuses to toss TRO over pot-growing permit; sets plaintiff's bond at $200K, not $2M as requested
A temporary restraining order preventing the state from issuing a pot-growing permit in the Kankakee area will remain in place until further order of the court, a Cook County judge ruled Thursday. -
Judge set to rule Thursday on requests to dissolve TRO, order bond in suit over pot-growing license
A Cook County judge on Thursday will rule on a pair of issues in a case challenging the state's new medical marijuana program. -
State hit with second lawsuit over pot-growing license awarded to Cresco Labs
Another company that lost out to Cresco Labs for a permit to legally grow pot in Illinois has filed a lawsuit.On Wednesday in Cook County Circuit Court, White Oak Growers LLC sued Philip Nelson, acting director of the Illinois Department of Agriculture, and Cresco Labs LLC, a company that won a trio of cultivation licenses under the state's new medical marijuana program.And like the lawsuit PM Rx LLC -
Lawsuit over pot-growing license in Kankakee continues as state seeks $2.2M bond; hearing set for next week
The company challenging the licensing process behind Illinois' new medical marijuana program should have to pony up at least $2 million as bond, according to attorneys representing the defendants in the case.At a hearing Tuesday, attorneys for the Illinois Department of Agriculture and Cresco Labs LLC asked Cook County Circuit Judge Kathleen Kennedy to make PM Rx LLC-- the plaintiff company that failed -
Judge halts issuance of pot-growing license in Kankakee; allows discovery and sets hearing for March 10
A Cook County judge has issued a temporary restraining order in a lawsuit that challenges the licensing process behind the state's new medical marijuana program. -
TRO hearing set over medical marijuana license controversy
A Cook County judge will decide whether to halt licensing for a medical marijuana cultivation facility to a controversial applicant following a 2:30 p.m. hearing today. -
Supreme Court reverses Fifth District to toss retaliatory discharge case against soybean company
BurkeThree former employees of a soybean supply company failed to prove they were fired in retaliation for providing information that led to a state investigation into underweight seed bags, the Illinois Supreme Court held Thursday.In their 10-page opinion, the justices unanimously reversed the 2011 ruling of the Fifth District Appellate Court to affirm now-retired Washington County Judge Dennis Hatch’s
